This collection of training materials is designed for all persons currently or soon-to-be engaged in counseling roles, especially those working in substance abuse programs. The counseling techniques in this manual focus on the following areas of concern: (1) the nature of the helping relationship; (2) empathy, feelings, and interpersonal process…

The experiential approach brings the trainees into a systematic training process that emphasizes their personal experiencing. Simulation materials bring the learning process exposure to many varied aspects of the counseling situation and enable counselor trainees to learn one counseling skill at a time and receive immediate feedback on their…

Describes five highly structured writing assignments for teaching family therapy trainees to think in systems terms: 1) analysis of a communication task; 2) family assessment report; 3) family treatment plan; 4) analysis of a marital or family therapy interview; and 5) family autobiography. Discusses the overall training context. (Author)

Seeking to determine the training methods that can most effectively develop highly proficient performance, this report describes the molecular analytic techniques currently used in the Air Force (the instructional systems (ISD) approach based on breaking a complex task into discrete steps) and presents the limitations of these techniques for…

Fifteen California community colleges participated in a program designed to develop and demonstrate a training and internship model that would provide skilled, experienced project managers, especially at the levels of dean and assistant dean, for occupational education in the state's community colleges. Research was conducted to produce a…

This book is intended to help managers, supervisors, and employees in U.S. organizations achieve full job performance by acquiring and applying effective strategies to transfer the knowledge and skills learned in training to the workplace. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 covers the following aspects of the groundwork of transfer of…

This booklet describes British efforts to develop a world-class, highly skilled work force. The booklet examines the following topics: Britain's training framework (the National and Scottish Vocational Qualification system and national targets for foundation and lifetime learning and training); strategies for developing a flexible qualification…

The Digital Economic Opportunity Committee (DEOC) was created by the National Policy Association (NPA) in 2001 to confront the critical national shortage of workers with the information technology (IT) skills needed for the information age economy. The committee oversaw an 18-month workforce development research project titled Crossing the Digital…

This book contains 25 papers on vocational and adult education in Europe and the United States. The following papers are included: "Vocational and Adult Education in Europe: Introduction to the Volume" (Fons van Wieringen, Graham Attwell); "Introduction to Section 1: Markets and Institutions in Vocational and Adult Education"…